Routledge Handbook of the Resource Nexus
Year: 2017
Type: book
Abstract: Demand for natural resources has grown rapidly for decades, and is expected to continue growing.These trends lead to repercussions, risks, and threats for humans and ecosystems at different scales.The challenges of sustainable resource management and governance are on numerous agendas, ranging from the G7 and G20 summits to UNEP's International Resource Panel, World Economic Forum, SDG implementation, and a growing community of international scholars.Research highlights the importance of accounting for the interdependencies of resource use and sustainability goals such as eliminating hunger, mitigating climate change, and expanding energy access.There is a need to understand interdependencies and the feasibility of more integrated approaches.Debate is often framed in terms of a "nexus" between water, energy, and food (sometimes including other resources). 1 The main aim of this handbook is to come to grips with what the nexus 2 is about, provide a reference textbook with an overview, and a survey on emerging and cutting-edge research, and application of the concept.Section 1 Page 4 of 26 This handbook enables readers to understand (Part I), measure (Part II), assess and model (Part III), compare political economies (Part IV), learn from applications (Part V), and upscale solutions (Part VI).The handbook's six parts and 32 chapters are carefully organized around these aims.As a whole, the handbook seeks to combine analytical rigor with attempts to be transformativei.e.shaping transformations towards sustainabilityin realms of research and knowledge-making, as well as practice and implementation.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Authors: Ivanova M., Escobar-Pemberthy N.
Language: English
Subfield: Water Science and Technology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2883364743